Day 107-111 (May 17-21) - Wamuran, D'Aguilar National Park, Glasshouse Mountains

Most of the past few days have been pretty uneventful. On Sunday we all livestreamed into Wilston's meeting where we considered Luke 17, in particular looking at our readiness for Christ's return, using the examples of Noah and Lot.

Monday was a quiet school and work day, plus some motorbike riding in the afternoon.

D'Aguilar National Park drive map.
Green = Easy; Yellow = Moderate; Purple = Difficult

Tuesday we went for a drive to D'Aguilar National Park with the intention of going for a walk together. When we looked at the map (see right), we found there were some tracks to drive along so we decided to go for a bit of a drive first to get an idea of whereabouts we might like to walk. Ha well that was the plan...!



We started from about where Sellin Road joins Peggs Rd (the 'easy' green track) and intended to follow that to the first 'moderate' yellow track (Byron Creek Rd), and then potentially up the purple 'difficult' "A Break" road, depending how 'difficult' it was. Well this turned into about a two hour drive! The track was reasonable but it was windy and moderately rutted so we had to take it slowly. The yellow bits were quite steep but manageable. But the purple ones were extremely steep, and not all our passengers were keen to continue (I'll let you guess which one(s) :)). However it really was the quickest way back, and once we were part way in it was going to be difficult to turn around and go back. So this led to some challenging driving.

Falls Lookout - D'Aguilar National Park

When we finally made it back we took a walk out to the Falls Lookout (which weren't flowing), after which we felt we'd been out quite long enough and were ready to head home.

Greg, Mim, Matt, Agnes, Graeme, Jude, Bek

Wednesday (today) was lovely. We caught up with Graeme and Agnes, who used to live in Adelaide until about 12 years ago. So much has changed since we saw them last when they moved up here, but at the same time so many things were still the same, including of course the One Hope we have which allows one to just carry on from where one left off!

One of the amazing things to hear about is Agnes' involvement in mission work in Vanuatu. For the past six to eight years, Agnes, who practised as a seamstress during her working life, has been visiting Vanuatu every couple of years and doing lots of work helping the local women learn sewing. This has enabled the local women to earn a basic income and even sew uniforms for their local school. THis has gone hand in glove with heavier building work providing utilities such as power to run the sewing machines. It was a very interesting morning.

The view from the top of Mt Ngungun

We stayed for lunch, and once the rain stopped we went for a climb up Mt Ngungun, one of the Glasshouse Mountains. These are spectacular mountains - the general area has rolling hills, but here and there these very tall hills just pop out of nowhere and tower a few hundred metres above the surrounding countryside.

All of us atop Mt Ngungun

We had intended to do the climb anyway so it was very nice to have Graeme and Agnes join us for some extended time together.














As you can see from the photos, the weather was a bit rainy, and the drizzle turned into rain on our drive back to Wamuran. Today (Thursday) it rained fairly steadily throughout the day, with a few patches of relief, so it was mainly an inside day today. Our kids went into the house to play games with the other kids, as we had originally planned on leaving today and they wanted to make the most of it, but the weather being what it was it wasn't ideal for packing up. I also have an idea about possibly doing some work on the car while I'm here. So I guess we'll be on our way when we go!


-- Greg

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